From an old regional Victorian schoolhouse Sonya Macdonald carefully makes and repairs books, applying the same techniques used more than a century ago by masters of the trade. E-readers may be the new paperback, but she says there is still a place for a beautifully handmade book. ...

Crime fiction character Jack Irish will make his on-screen debut in two new ABC telemovies. Ballarat-based author Peter Temple talks about bringing the former criminal lawyer turned debt-collecting widower to life on the small screen.
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A Melbourne based author wants to raise funds to publish a children's book that's she's just written, and which highlights the effects of climate change on her home country of Kiribati. Called Teaote and the Wall, Marita Davies' book tells the real-life story of her mother, and how she has to keep ...